En Verso y en Prosa. Respuesta a Nicolás Guillén por... Sub-Director de Prensa Libre en el Exilio. -

Autor:  (Nicolás Guillén) Medrano, Humberto.
Año:  1965.
Páginas:  2 foolscap typewritten and mimeographed shhets in an envelope.
Dimensiones:  21.5x28.
Angry and satirical criticism of Nicolás Guillén's book Tengo, published in 1964. Posted from the US (GA.) and addressed to Guillén at the Ministerio de Educación, and forwarded to the poet's home address. Humberto Medrano (Havanna 1916 - Coral Gables 2012) had been editor of the Cuban newspaper Prensa Libre. When the island's leading daily El Diario de la Marina was closed by the revolutionary government, Medrano published an editorial headed Los Enterradores; as a result he was forced into exile in Miami. In this article (he describes Guillén's book as a "botafumeiro rimado"), he takes particular issue with the poet's attacks on pre-revolutionary segregation and racial bars, pointing out that that there had been Afrocuban senators, deputies and high ranking army officers; indeed, in the 1930s, Langston Hughes had been impressed by the lack of racial prejudice in Cuba.